Motivational Quotes

Art

We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.

- John F. Kennedy

Best Quotes about Art

Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

Jackson Pollock

The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.

Gide, Andre

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

If that's art, I'm a Hottentot!

Truman, Harry S

The focus should be on the players. I'm here a long time. You can call me in the summer. Our seniors will be gone.

Smith, Dean

There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.

Zedong, Mao

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Paul Gauguin

As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

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I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.

Miguel de Cervantes

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The heart will break, but broken live on.

Byron, Lord

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Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?

Rosenberg, Harold

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Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood -- never.

Camus, Albert

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The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

Keller, Helen

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Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted. [Henry Iv]

Shakespeare, William

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Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.

Adorno, Theodor W.

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Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

Cather, Willa

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The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

Crowley, Aleister

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Art never improves, but the material of art is never quite the same.

Eliot, T. S.

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As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn't make a turning point of it, we were assigned to the humanities, to poetry, philosophy, painting -- the nursery games of humankind, which had to be left behind when the age of science began. The humanities would be called upon to choose a wallpaper for the crypt, as the end drew near.

Bellow, Saul

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What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

Burroughs, William S.

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Each painting has its own way of evolving...When the painting is finished, the subject reaveals itself.

William Baziotes

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I know just how frustrating it can be when you're tired and exhausted, but you still want to draw something.

Ward Jenkins

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It's not your painting anymore. It stopped being your painting the moment that you finished it.

Jeff Melvoin

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Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green

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If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us.

Debord, Guy

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Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.

Ovid

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The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not tinker with the universe; he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life.

Miller, Henry

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The artistic temperament is a disease that affects amateurs. Artists of a large and wholesome vitality get rid of their art easily, as they breathe easily or perspire easily. But in artists of less force, the thing becomes a pressure, and produces a definite pain, which is called the artistic temperament.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Art for art's sake? I should think so, and more so than ever at the present time. It is the one orderly product which our middling race has produced. It is the cry of a thousand sentinels, the echo from a thousand labyrinths, it is the lighthouse which cannot be hidden... it is the best evidence we can have of our dignity.

Forster, Edward M.

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Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.

Hare, David

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The artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Drink, and dance and laugh and lie, love the reeling midnight through, for tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)

Parker, Dorothy

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It is all very well, when the pen flows, but then there are the dark days when imagination deserts one, and it is an effort to put anything down on paper. That little you have achieved stares at you at the end of the day, and you know the next morning you will have to scrape it down and start again.

Elizabeth Aston

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Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other.

Cassady, Neal

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Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.

Ambrose Bierce

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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist's way of scribbling Kilroy was here on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.

Faulkner, William

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Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

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If you were in a burning house and there was a cat and a Rembrandt, what would you save? The cat...you would save the cat, because the cat is alive. The art is dead. It's just paint on a canvas, ink on a page. To live for art is to deny life. It's just to destroy life.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent

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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Reinhardt, Ad

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In every veil you see, the Divine Beauty is concealed, making every heart a slave to him. In love to him the heart finds its life; in desire for him the soul finds its happiness. The heart which loves a fair one here, though it knows it not, is really his lover.

Jami

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Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.

Simonides

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Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.

Cioran, E. M.

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A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

Edmond de Goncourt